Many people on lemmy.ml deeply respect and admire authoritarian governments and organizations.

Iran, China, North Korea, Soviet Union…

The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.

Iran hangs homosexuals. Iran shot 30,000 people in less than than 2 weeks. The Soviet Union had to build a fucking Iron wall to prevent people from escaping. The Soviets lied about the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. China censors the internet. China wants to eliminate Islam. North Korea is a totalitarian hellscape. Watching anime is a crime.

Why is lemmy.ml so fascinated with authoritarians?

  • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    13 hours ago

    Why do right wingers and “both sidesers” always imagine the left uplifts cults of personality like they do? Lefties mostly don’t care about this guy. His fanboys stan the guy pretty hard but his fanboys ain’t “the left.”

      • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        12 hours ago

        But you care about the guy. The left at large doesn’t know who he is in the first place and the only people I ever see bring him up are zionists and maga.

        • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
          11·
          11 hours ago

          And just to be clear, I only care that he shocked his dog. I agree with him on many policy level things. But good job trying to purity test me, this is why progressives can’t get shit off the ground, cause of reactionaries like you

            • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
              11·
              10 hours ago

              Still making shit up I see. I again have a pubic history of saying I vote in primaries. How does it feel to be wrong at every turn?

              • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
                11·
                9 hours ago

                Congratulations, want a cookie? Doesn’t change the fact we don’t get shit done because progressives largely either don’t vote or protest vote.

            • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
              11·
              8 hours ago

              Lol, the completely irony and lack of self awareness in this comment when you replied to my within minutes midday on a Tuesday.

              Here’s a mirror you need to take a little longer than a glance into.

              And since you’re freaking at straws, let me take away one more for you to reach for. I actually volunteer to canvas for local progressive candidates. So I’ll be taking that cookie now.

              What dafuq have you done for your community lately besides bitch online?

              • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                5 hours ago

                Volunteer for campaigns, phone bank, door to door. Doesn’t amount to much because the area is mostly maga and collaborators aren’t part of my community, they’re traitors. Unfortunately most of the supposed progressives and leftists still think third party is viable. So here we are.

                • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
                  1·
                  3 hours ago

                  The fact you went from flippantly accusing of being being a maga Zionist, to using "progressives a pejorative, means you stand on absolutely nothing and hold no true beliefs. I want to let you know I have zero respect for you so I’m not reading or even voting on your comment. I’d say be better, but that seems outside your childlike wheelhouse.